Subject: Re: NetBSD current on Soekris 4801
To: <>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/09/2004 10:21:41
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On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 11:43:26PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 10:06:22PM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > > I don't know how this serial console stuff interacts with an OS when
> > > it's pre-kludged right into the BIOS itself.  Probably the BIOS
> > > pretends the serial port is like a screen. =20
> >=20
> > Right, which is why you see pxeboot output (our bootloader calls BIOS
> > functions to do output) but not the kernel output.
> >=20
> > I fell into the same trap a few days ago.=20
>=20
> Me too, and using pxeboot_ia32_com0.bin nor building a kernel with
> console hardwired to com0 helped. Using the pxeboot_ia32_com0.bin from
> 1.6.2 fixed the problem.
> It seems the current pxeboot_ia32_com0.bin has a problem with at last some
> Soekris. The one on which I had the problem was a 4521.

ah.... mine was 1.6.2.
	-is

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